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Student sent home for hair
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio seventh grader is feeling blue after she was banned from school for putting red highlights in her hair.
Officials at Bowling Green Junior High say Angelica Hummel must dye her hair back, because the school’s dress code prohibits hairstyles that bring undue attention or make the wearer conspicuous.
The 13-year-old says she doesn’t like being stuck at home and wants to return to school. But she says her punishment is unfair, because other students have highlights, too.
Parents Mike and Michelle Hummel say the school is splitting hairs, and they support their daughter’s decision to keep the red coloring.
Bowling Green Area Schools Superintendent Hugh Caumartin is siding with the school, saying the dress code cuts down on distractions.
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Cleveland firefighter apologizes before jury
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN
Associated Press Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) - A city firefighter apologized Wednesday for killing three people over Fourth of July fireworks and told jurors considering his sentence that some might think only his execution would be a sufficient apology.
"Regardless of what happens, I will have to answer to the highest court of all. That apology may be my very soul," Terrance Hough Jr., 36, of Cleveland, said in a prepared, unsworn statement that exempted him from cross-examination by prosecutors.
Hough, dressed in a dark jacket and striped tie and swallowing hard to maintain his strong voice, apologized to his family, the community, the fire department and victims and their families.
"What can I possibly say to help ease the pain? I can only try," Hough said in the statement read in front of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury that convicted him and also must decide whether to recommend the death sentence.
The final sentence will be up to Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold.
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N.C. woman blamed for hit-skip in Ohio
By LORI MONSEWICZ
The Repository
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - Anna Hall Colvin - 7 1/2 months pregnant - was standing in the checkout line at a North Carolina Wal-Mart when Canton authorities dialed her cell phone with a surprise.
They told her she was wanted for hitting three men with her car.
Police had an arrest warrant, and she needed to come back to Stark County.
"The man was telling me that I needed to report to Ohio, and that I did a hit-and-skip, that I left the scene of an accident," she said. "I thought someone might have gotten my Social Security number, but when they told me they had my license plate number, I was shocked."
That license plate was on her red Monte Carlo sitting outside in the Wal-Mart parking lot roughly 700 miles away.
"I was crying, and the clerk just looked at me and she kept asking me if I was all right."
It was a mistake that almost didn't get caught.
It wasn't until Colvin returned to Ohio, lined up eyewitnesses to back her whereabouts and fought the case in court that her innocence came to light.
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